"Teach your children... there is a seed in the soil
if you water it with blood,
it will sprout a revolution"

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

Fatah actively teaches children that death is needed for what it calls the "revolution." It wrote on its Facebook "Main Page": "There is a seed in the soil; if you water it with blood, it will sprout a revolution." The statement was accompanied by a photo of a man in military uniform holding a rifle and standing next to the Palestinian flag, overlooking a large gathering:

"Teach your children to love the soil.
Teach them that we live in misery.
Teach them that there is a seed in the soil;
if you water it with blood,
it will sprout a revolution."

"If you have watered the tree of the homeland
with your free blood, with love,

and have offered the remnants of your bodily parts
as a bridge for those who are yet to come
- Then you're a Palestinian!"

[Zayzafuna, September 2013, accessed Feb. 2, 2014]

The advisory board of the magazine includes PA Deputy Minister of Education Jihad Zakarneh and the Head of the Media Department of the PA Ministry of Education, Abd Al-Hakim Abu Jamous.

PMW has documented that the PA and Fatah have expressed the ideal of children dying for Palestine in the past. At a celebration attended by PA and Fatah officials in 2012, young children sang the following:

"My pure land,
I shall saturate you with my blood...
redeem you with my life."